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title: "Hamburger" comes from Hamburg, a city in Germany, not from ham; peo… — Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hamburger" comes from Hamburg, a city in Germany, not from ham; people split it into "ham" + "burger" and then made "cheeseburger" and "veggie burger". Who acts: Hamburger, people. A sentence of the lesson «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» of the language course of Mova's primary s
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# Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds, sentence 13

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"Hamburger" comes from Hamburg, a city in Germany, not from ham; people split it into "ham" + "burger" and then made "cheeseburger" and "veggie burger".

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**Who acts:** Hamburger, people · **What happens:** come, split, make · **To what, where:** Hamburg, ish, ham, cheeseburger

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Building words: prefixes, suffixes and compounds» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hamburger, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.lesson:13
# text = "Hamburger" comes from Hamburg, a city in Germany, not from ham; people split it into "ham" + "burger" and then made "cheeseburger" and "veggie burger".
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Hamburger	hamburger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
4	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Hamburg	Hamburg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ham	ham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ham	ham	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	+	+	SYM	SYM	_	26	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=22:cc
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=24:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
26	burger	burger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=18:cc
29	then	then	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
31	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	_
32	cheeseburger	cheeseburger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=32:cc
35	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	_
36	veggie	veggie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	burger	burger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
38	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	37	punct	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | present | Hamburger |  |  | Hamburg |  | from ham | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from hamburg=Initial\_Location from ham=Destination |
| 2 | **split** | past | people | ish |  |  |  | into ham + burger *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient into ham=Result |
| 3 | **make** | past | people *not said here* | cheeseburger and veggie burger |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cheeseburger=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:037-building-words-prefixes-suffixes-and-compounds.lesson:13`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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